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There are fears that if Thames Water collapses, Labour will have no choice but to step in and temporarily renationalise the company at an estimated cost of £38bn to the taxpayer. This includes ...
Thames Water serves around 16 million customers, almost 25% of the UK’s population, but it is in about £16bn of debt and needs £3.3bn over the next five years to keep running.
Thames Water is trying to secure £3bn in emergency funding to protect against imminent collapse, a plan which London’s High Court will decide on in Febrary. The company is also looking to find ...
It owns more than 20,000 miles of water mains and more than 68,000 miles of sewers across London, the Thames Valley and the Home Counties, with approximately 8,000 employees.
The Coppermills Water Treatment Works is a large water treatment works in the Lea Valley in east London. Completed in 1969 by the Metropolitan Water Board, [1] it is now owned and operated by Thames Water. In 2009, Coppermills was connected to the Thames Water Ring Main via the Northern Extension Tunnel, enabling the facility to be a major ...
The plant takes brackish water from the River Thames and converts it into drinkable water through a reverse osmosis process. The first of its kind in the UK, it was built for Thames Water by a consortium of Interserve, Atkins Water and Acciona Agua. [2] It was opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on 2 June 2010. [3]
In March 2003 Thames Water identified that by 2005 there would be a deficit in water treatment and supply capacity in North London. To address this deficit a new water treatment facility was constructed on 1.5 ha site adjacent to the William Girling reservoir and the A110 road ( 51°38′11″N 0°00′57″W / 51.63629°N 0.01582°W ...
The utility giant is struggling under a £14 billion debt pile